Month: May 2011

I think a lot of readers may be interested hearing about Harvard Law School's Project on Disability.  A very nice story about the HPOD has just appreaed in the Harvard Law…

Last week I read Manning Marable's Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.  Professor Marable takes on his subject's self-created (and other-created) public images (most notably, those presented in the Autobiography of Malcolm…

One of my colleagues recently noticed that a number of law review articles are available for sale (or rather digital download) at amazon.com  An example is here.  She asked me…

An interesting law suit has been brewing between the tattoo artist who created Mike Tyson's famous facial tattoo and the Warner Bros studios in respect of Ed Helms' character in…

I am very sad to report the passing of my colleague Professor Laura Chisolm who battled metatstatic breast cancer for some years with quiet dignity.  When I joined the faculty…

This daily financial crisis laugh, courtesy of Joseph Cotterill at Alphaville:       Says Cotterill:  "To criticise this feels a bit like kicking a puppy" and  But: “EU institutions…

Because life really is better than fiction.  The St. Paul Pioneer Press ran Tim Pawlenty's announcement that he is running for President alongside obituaries in yesterday's paper.  Not a good…

CNN has a nice story detailing recent discussions at William and Mary, Brown, and Emory about their connections to slavery.  Mark Auslander provides particularly apt comments in the story --…

I understand that today is the fortieth anniversary of the release of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" album.  That was one of the first cds I bought when I first…

Barak’s recent paper on the “rabbinic cartels” reminded me that I wanted to provide some updates on Kamakahi v. American Society for Reproductive Medicine et al., No. 11 CV 1781,…